Anna watched as Professor Rae demonstrated the correct fork to use for salads. Anna hated salads. Lettuce was only for flobberworms. She reached down to try and find that same fork, but when accidentally brought her palm down on the little parts that stick up, she only managed to cause the thing to fly about 6 inches up in the air and land upside down in her lap. She wasn't as great at this "lady thing" as she probably should be. Oh, well, at least it was the dumb salad fork.

She quickly retrieved it and held it up to examine it, mainly as a distraction if anything. Merlin she hoped no one had seen that little episode. The professor was explaining how appropriate it was to address the host at such an occasion, but she wasn't too sure what that meant. How do you address a host? Yo! Soup's kicking, dude! She fought the urge to giggle out loud at her thoughts. She was acting a little silly now. She composed herself and waited for the next set of instructions.